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Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
I have bad news for MarsEdit users who publish to Blogger: Google is shutting down the Picasa Web Albums API, and MarsEdit will no longer be able to upload images to Blogger/Blogspot blogs. I had anticipated being able to switch to the Google Photos API, and put a substantial amount of working into transitioning to […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Congratulations to the open source WordPress team on the release of WordPress 5.0: Bebo. Although WordPress’s versioning scheme doesn’t place significance on the “round number” versions, this update happens to include a major rethinking of the default web-based WordPress editor, which they call “Gutenberg.” What’s the Big Deal? The fundamental change in WordPress 5.0 is […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2018
MarsEdit’s history with Tumblr has been long and bittersweet. Starting with a December, 2008 post in which I encouraged Tumblr to add fundamental support for apps like MarsEdit to their API: There are relatively simple changes that Tumblr can make to their API to facilitate an acceptable user experience not only from MarsEdit, but from […]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2017
Over the past few months I’ve received a handful of support inquiries from MarsEdit customers who have trouble logging into their WPEngine-hosted WordPress blog, after initially typing the wrong username or password into MarsEdit’s authentication panel. Normally when MarsEdit tries to connect to a blog, it reacts to authentication failures by putting up a simple […]
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